Potato centering device

Details Potato centering device Potato centering device

1981-05-06

1984-01-03

Meister, James M.

Cutting

Processes

With subsequent handling

83 98, 83107, 83402, 834043, B26D 103

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044236522

ABSTRACT:
A centering device is provided for centering a potato with respect to a propelling hydraulic fluid flow stream which carries the potato into cutting engagement with knife elements of a cutting assembly positioned along the flow stream. The device comprises an elongated tube at the upstream end of the cutting assembly shaped to define a linear flow path of generally circular cross-section and oriented for continuously accelerating the hydraulic fluid. This acceleration results in the fluid having a slightly higher velocity than the potato throughout the length of the tube to create, when the potato is displaced from a centered position, fluid velocity and pressure differentials on opposite sides of the potato tending to return the potato to the centered position.

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